Improved washing-machine



ILPETERS, FHOTO-LITHDGRAPHER. WASHINGTON. D C.

ilnted (States anni 69Min.

Letters Patent No. 104,096, dated .Time 111, 1870.

IMPROVED WASHING-MACHINE.

The Schedule referred to in these Lettera Patent and making part of thesame.

To all 'whom it may concern Beit known that I, lsRAnn BAKER, of Tomah,in the county of Monroe and State of Wisconsin, have invented a new anduseful Improvement in Wasbing- Machines and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description thereof', which willenable others skilled inthe art to make and use the same, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawing forming part of thisspecification.

Figure l is a detail sectional view of my improved machine, takenthrough the line x :v,ig. 2.

Figure 2 is a top view of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

My invention has for its object to furnish an im proved washing-machine,which shall be simple in construction and effective in operation, andwhich may be manufactured and sold for a small amount 5 and It consistsin the construction and combination of.

the various parts of the machine, as hereinafter more fully described. i

A are the ends of the machine, which are vertical, and which have legs,a', formed upon or attached to them, of sufficient length to raise themachine to a convenient height.

The ends A, upon their inner sides, have circular grooves formed iuthem, to receive the edges of the thin board or boards B that form thesides and bottom of the machine, which is bent into circular form, asshown in iig. 1.

Rubber packing, G, is placed in the bottom of the groove in the ends A,for the edges ot the board B to rest upon to make the joints tight, andat the same ytime to prevent the boards B from being cracked or injuredby shrinking or swelling, as they would be if driven v into saidgrooves.

The ends A and boards B are secured to each other by the long bolts andnuts D, which pass through the ends' A, and extend along the outer sidesof the boards B, as shown in gs. 1 and 2.

E is a rubber formed by attaching three or more polygonal rollers to aframe, which rubber is pivot-ed at the lower ends of its end-bars to theends A by pinspassing in through said ends.

The upper part of the rubber E is held forward by the coiled orequivalent spring F, the rear end of which is attached to the said boardB, and the forward end of which is attached to the rear side of theupper part of the frame of thesaid rubber E.

G are the side boards of the movable rubber, which* are pivoted to theends A by pins, the upper parts of which are bent forward to serve aslevers for operating the machine, and are connected at their ends by around or bar, H, which serves as a handle.

The bent part or levers of the sides G are strengthened 'and heid inposition by the braces I, as shown in f1". 1.

cThe lower parts of the sides G are connected and held in their properrelative positions by the crossbars J, the lower one of which is madesomewhat wedge-shaped, and is so arranged that itsr edge may move alongthe inner surface of the board B, to tend to lift the clothes away. fromthe bottom of the' machine as they are being carried forward by therubber. v K are three or more polygonal rollers, the ends of which arepivoted to the sides G, and which are so arranged that each lower rollermay be a little in advance of the succeeding one, as shown in iig. l.

By this construction, as the clothes are carried forward by the movablerubber, the upper part of' the rubber E yields, andthe clothes arerolled, pressed,

and rubbed by and between the rollers, and, as themovable rubber movesback, the clothes fall back in the water, turn over, and are opened out,so that a dierent part of the clothes will be operated upon at eachforward movement of the said rubber.

Having thusdes'cribed my invention,

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- Thewashing-machine formed by the combination of grooved ends A, bent boardor boards B, bolts D, rubber E, spring l", and movable centrally-pivotedrubber G I J K, all constructed and arranged'as shown and described.

ISRAEL BAKER.V

Witnesses WM. A. BARBER, GEoRGE WARREN.

